Green Product Design
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The official GTU curriculum for Green Product Design (subject code 3174407) as prescribed for Chem. Green · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3174407)Unit 1 Concept of green chemistry and product design for sustainability
- The twelve principles of green chemistry and green engineering
- safe 08 18 product and process design
- design for degradation
- real-time analysis for pollution prevention
- inherently safer chemistry for accident prevention
Unit 2 Understanding green product design and environmentally acceptable
- Green product design definition
- product strategy
- material selection
- resource use, production requirements and planning for the final disposition (recycling
- or disposal) of a product
- environmental load of product
- environmentally compatible materials
- design of unit operations for pollution prevention
- economics of pollution prevention
- sustainable process and product design
Unit 3 Approach to life cycle analysis of product
- Life cycle analysis
- life cycle inventory
- general issues in inventory analysis
- issues applicable to specific life cycle stages
- raw material acquisition stage
- manufacturing stage
- use/reuse/maintenance stage
- recycle/waste management stage
Unit 4 Applications of green product design in various domains
- Applications of green product design in chemical industries
- medical and pharmaceutical industries
- food and beverages industries
- consumer products industries
- automobiles and electronics industries
Unit 5 Hazardous waste handling under rule-9 and green laws compliance
- Understanding of rule-9 for utilization of hazardous waste
- SOP preparation for utilization of hazardous waste under rule-9
- case studies of products/processes design to utilize hazardous waste under rule-9
- International laws on product take-back and its impact